lunedì 22 giugno 2015

European Games 2015 Baku, Azerbaijan

Water Polo (U17 European Championships)

Serbia takes Baku 2015 men's gold

The Serbian men's national junior U17 team is Europe's best. In a close final of the first European Games in Baku on Sunday the Serbs held off Spain 7-8, thanks to consecutive goals in the third and fourth quarter. It marked the second finals loss for the Spanish teams as the women finished runner-up on Saturday falling to Russia.

In the men's final Spain finally managed to score cutting the deficit back to 1 with just 0.34 to go which proved to late as Serbia played out the clock and Spain could not take a shot in the final seconds. Marko Jankovic led the Serbian attack scoring three goals. Alex de la Fuente produced the same offence for runner-up Spain.

The same decision was made in a tense bronze medal match as Greece scored twice in a row in the 4th quarter to edge Croatia 10-11 and finish in 3rd place. Italy secured 5th place thanks to a clear 6-11 win over Russia in Sunday's classification match. 7th place was taken by Hungary who defeated Germany 6-15.